Popular baby names in Delaware, 1916

The most popular baby names in Delaware in 1916 were Mary for girls (114 babies) and William for boys (145). William ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,050 babies born in Delaware in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Delaware in 1916

Names given at least 15 times in Delaware that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Sara: 18 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Anne: 23 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Sarah: 23 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Elizabeth: 66 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Anna: 59 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Ida: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Pearl: 15 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Florence: 37 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Ann: 19 babies, 2.3× the national rate
Margaret: 81 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Francis: 29 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Howard: 28 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Harry: 35 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Samuel: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
William: 145 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Anthony: 17 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Ernest: 17 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Herbert: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate
Alfred: 15 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Delaware, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	114	–	1
2	Dorothy	82	↑2	3
3	Margaret	81	↓1	4
4	Helen	73	↓1	2
5	Elizabeth	66	↑1	8
6	Anna	59	↓1	7
7	Mildred	45	–	6
8	Ruth	44	–	5
9	Florence	37	↑3	14
10	Marie	36	↑14	12
11	Frances	34	–	9
12	Alice	33	↑3	13
13	Virginia	30	↑6	10
14	Catherine	27	↓5	20
15	Eleanor	24	↑7	27
16	Anne	23	↑5	53
17	Ethel	23	↓3	25
18	Sarah	23	↑13	52
19	Pauline	22	↑25	33
20	Evelyn	21	↑20	11
21	Irene	21	↑14	17
22	Josephine	20	↓6	21
23	Lillian	20	↑2	16
24	Ann	19	↓4	40
25	Edith	19	↓7	28
26	Grace	19	↓3	26
27	Rose	18	↑9	15
28	Sara	18	new	>100
29	Edna	17	↓16	19
30	Clara	16	↑2	39
31	Elsie	16	↓21	48
32	Emma	16	↑6	41
33	Ida	16	new	54
34	Jean	16	↑7	45
35	Louise	16	↑7	18
36	Thelma	16	new	29
37	Doris	15	↓4	32
38	Pearl	15	new	57
39	Agnes	14	↑6	50
40	Gertrude	13	↑3	35
41	Hazel	13	↓12	31
42	Beatrice	12	↓25	38
43	Marjorie	12	↓9	37
44	Myrtle	12	new	58
45	Ellen	11	new	87
46	Gladys	11	↓18	22
47	Kathryn	11	new	60
48	Julia	10	↑2	46
49	Martha	10	↓22	24
50	Rebecca	10	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	William	145	↑1	2
2	John	134	↓1	1
3	James	104	↑1	3
4	Charles	66	↓1	6
5	Joseph	65	–	5
6	George	56	–	7
7	Robert	51	–	4
8	Edward	40	–	8
9	Harry	35	↑3	19
10	Paul	32	↑3	12
11	Francis	29	↑6	31
12	Thomas	29	↓3	10
13	Howard	28	↑8	25
14	Walter	28	↓4	11
15	Henry	23	↑4	14
16	Harold	18	↑4	13
17	Samuel	18	↓2	41
18	Anthony	17	↓4	37
19	Ernest	17	↑12	36
20	Frank	17	↓9	9
21	Albert	16	↓5	17
22	Herbert	16	↑27	40
23	Richard	16	↑4	15
24	Alfred	15	↑2	43
25	Stanley	15	↓1	34
26	Ralph	13	↑9	21
27	Arthur	12	↑20	18
28	Carl	12	new	23
29	Clarence	12	↑1	24
30	Daniel	11	↑11	55
31	Norman	11	↓6	48
32	Willard	11	↑14	69
33	Benjamin	10	↓5	79
34	David	10	↑8	28
35	Horace	10	↓1	>100
36	Leonard	10	new	42
37	Clifton	9	new	>100
38	Donald	9	new	20
39	Frederick	9	↓3	52
40	Lawrence	9	↑3	38
41	Lewis	9	new	71
42	Louis	9	↑8	22
43	Preston	9	↑2	>100
44	Wilson	9	new	>100
45	Elwood	8	new	>100
46	Fred	8	↓23	29
47	Harvey	8	↓10	92
48	Jesse	8	new	77
49	Michael	8	↓5	44
50	Raymond	8	↓18	16

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